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Linux Kernel 4.11 Officially Released (softpedia.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the released-candidate dept.

prisoninmate quotes Softpedia: Linux kernel 4.11 has been in development for the past two months, since very early March, when the first Release Candidate arrived for public testing. Eight RCs later, we're now able to download and compile the final release of Linux 4.11 on our favorite GNU/Linux distributions and enjoy its new features. Prominent ones include scalable swapping for SSDs, a brand new perf ftrace tool, support for OPAL drives, support for the SMC-R (Shared Memory Communications-RDMA) protocol, journalling support for MD RAID5, all new statx() system call to replace stat(2), and persistent scrollback buffers for VGA consoles... The Linux 4.11 kernel also introduces initial support for Intel Gemini Lake chips, which is an Atom-based, low-cost computer processor family developed using Intel's 14-nanometer technology, and better power management for AMD Radeon GPUs when the AMDGPU open-source graphics driver is used.

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  1. API/ABI fixes by Artem+S.+Tashkinov · · Score: 3, Informative
    Welcome another round of API/ABI breakage: even the latest beta NVIDIA drivers 381.09 are not compatible with this kernel. Here's a dirty hack/patch to resolve the incompatibility.

    VMWare Workstation/Player 12.5.5 also needs some love.

    VirtualBox has already been made compatible. Thanks, Oracle for keeping it up to date.

    Lastly, a human readable changelog is always where you expect to find it: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.11.

    1. Re:API/ABI fixes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      You have your terminology wrong. The nVidia drivers are not using an API or ABI, they are hooking drectly into the kernel. That's why they keep having problems with new versions that change internals.

      Meanwhile, changing an ABI is as close to a firing offense as you can get with open source software (which will result in a slashdot post about Linus' use of profanities), and API changes are only acceptable as long as the old ABI is kept in place.

  2. it'll never end by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    The typical /. user these days is a Trump-voting UX whore. You can't tell if their limp-wristedness is coming from frustrated interior-designer personalities, or carpal tunnel consequent to masturbating over disadvantaging the poor and unhealthy.